BookletChart™ Chandeleur and Breton Sounds NOAA Chart 11363

A reduced-scale NOAA nautical chart for small boaters When possible, use the full-size NOAA chart for navigation.

Included Area Published by the Ohio, Missouri, Red, Tennessee, and other rivers flowing into it. From the mouth, at the entrance to Southwest Pass, it is about 1,840 miles to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Minneapolis, 1,960 miles to Pittsburgh, 1,680 miles to Knoxville, and National Ocean Service 1,530 miles to Chicago via the Illinois Waterway. Office of Coast Survey New Orleans can also be reached by the more direct deep-draft route through the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal, about 30 miles N of www.NauticalCharts.NOAA.gov South Pass. The outlet canal extends from deepwater in the Gulf to the 888-990-NOAA junction with the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal at New Orleans. The shape of the delta is somewhat like the foot of a bird, with its four What are Nautical Charts? toelike extensions protruding into the Gulf. The passes consist of narrow-banked deposits of sand and clay brought down by the river Nautical charts are a fundamental tool of marine navigation. They show current which continuously adds them to the seaward margins of the water depths, obstructions, buoys, other aids to navigation, and much delta. In this manner the delta is being built seaward at an estimated more. The information is shown in a way that promotes safe and average rate of 300 feet a year. Numerous bays between the passes are efficient navigation. Chart carriage is mandatory on the commercial changing through wave and tidal action and filling up ships that carry America’s commerce. They are also used on every Navy The passes consist of narrow-banked deposits of sand and clay brought and Coast Guard ship, fishing and passenger vessels, and are widely down by the river current which continuously adds them to the seaward carried by recreational boaters. margins of the delta. In this manner the delta is being built seaward at

What is a BookletChart? an estimated average rate of 300 feet a year. Numerous bays between the passes are changing through wave and tidal action and filling up with This BookletChart is made to help recreational boaters locate the immense amounts of material carried down by the river. The upper themselves on the water. It has been reduced in scale for convenience, half of Garden Island Bay has been filled in so that now it is a marsh. but otherwise contains all the information of the full-scale nautical Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal is a 66-mile-long deepwater channel chart. The bar scales have also been reduced, and are accurate when that extends NW from deep water in the Gulf of Mexico to the Inner used to measure distances in this BookletChart. See the Note at the Harbor Navigation Canal at New Orleans. bottom of page 5 for the reduction in scale applied to this chart. Chandeleur Sound and Breton Sound lie S of Mississippi Sound and N of the Mississippi River Delta; no clear line of demarcation lies between Whenever possible, use the official, full scale NOAA nautical chart for them. navigation. Nautical chart sales agents are listed on the Internet at Chandeleur Islands, forming the E boundary of Chandeleur Sound, http://www.NauticalCharts.NOAA.gov. comprise a narrow, crescent-shaped chain of low islands starting 10 This BookletChart does NOT fulfill chart carriage requirements for miles S of Ship Island and continuing in a general S-by-W direction for a regulated commercial vessels under Titles 33 and 44 of the Code of distance of 20 miles. SW from these islands are Curlew Island, Grand Federal Regulations. Gosier Islands, and Breton Islands. The Breton Islands mark the E limit of Breton Sound. Chandeleur Sound offers smoother water than the Notice to Mariners Correction Status passage E of the islands to shallow-draft vessels bound from Mississippi

Sound to Mississippi River. This BookletChart has been updated for chart corrections published in An unmarked sunken wreck is about 1.9 miles SSW of Old Harbor Island the U.S. Coast Guard Local Notice to Mariners, the National Geospatial Shoal, in about 29°42.5'N., 89°03.0'W. Intelligence Agency Weekly Notice to Mariners, and, where applicable, The lock at the S end of Ostrica Canal is 247 feet long and 40 feet wide the Canadian Coast Guard Notice to Mariners. Additional chart with a depth of 10 feet over the sills. The lock operates 24 hours a day. corrections have been made by NOAA in advance of their publication in Red and green traffic lights at each end of the lock should be obeyed by a Notice to Mariners. The last Notices to Mariners applied to this chart all vessels waiting to enter the lock. The lock foreman can be contacted are listed in the Note at the bottom of page 7. Coast Pilot excerpts are on VHF-FM channel 16 and uses channel 10 as a working frequency. not being corrected. The W shore of Breton Sound consists of a network of marshy islands

separated by shallow bayous and bays. The land is so low that extremely For latest Coast Pilot excerpt visit the Office of Coast Survey website at high tides will submerge it in some sections nearly to the banks of the http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/searchbychart.php?chart=113 Mississippi River. Of the several shallow canals leading from the S part of 63 Breton Sound to the river bank, only the Ostrica Canal and Baptiste

Collette Bayou lead into the river. [Coast Pilot 5, Chapter 9 excerpts] The entrance to Bayou Terre aux Boefs, on the NE side of Black Bay, is Mississippi River empties into the N central marked by lights and daybeacons. In October 1994, the controlling part of the Gulf of Mexico through a depth was 5 ½ feet up the bayou to Delacroix; local knowledge is number of mouths or passes which, taken advised. together, form the delta of the river. The

river and its tributaries form the largest

network of navigable waters in the world.

The two principal passes, South Pass and

Southwest Pass, are about 1,600 nautical miles from New York, 500 nautical miles U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center from Key West, 300 nautical miles E of 24 hour Regional Contact for Emergencies Galveston, and 440 nautical miles E of Corpus Christi. The river is the access to the Ports of New Orleans and RCC New Orleans Commander Baton Rouge, and the numerous cities in the central part of the United 8th CG District (504) 589-6225 States located in the Mississippi River Valley and along its tributaries, the New Orleans, LA 2

Lateral System As Seen Entering From Seaward on navigable waters except Western Rivers

PORT SIDE PREFERRED CHANNEL PREFERRED CHANNEL STARBOARD SIDE ODD NUMBERED AIDS NO NUMBERS – MAY BE LETTERED NO NUMBERS – MAY BE LETTERED EVEN NUMBERED AIDS

PREFERRED CHANNEL TO PREFERRED CHANNEL GREEN LIGHT ONLY STARBOARD TO PORT RED LIGHT ONLY FLASHING (2) TOPMOST BAND GREEN TOPMOST BAND RED FLASHING (2) FLASHING FLASHING OCCULTING GREEN LIGHT ONLY RED LIGHT ONLY OCCULTING QUICK FLASHING QUICK FLASHING ISO COMPOSITE GROUP FLASHING (2+1) COMPOSITE GROUP FLASHING (2+1) ISO

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"2" R "8" Fl R 6s 1 2 Fl R 4s "1" G "9" GR "A" RG "B" Fl G 6s Fl G 4s Fl (2+1) G 6s Fl (2+1) R 6s LIGHTED BUOY LIGHT LIGHTED BUOY LIGHT

C 6 G G 5 U GR C "1" "5" RG G "U" GR RG R 2 R C "S" N "C" "G" N "6" "2 "

CAN DAYBEACON CAN NUN NUN DAYBEACON

For more information on aids to navigation, including those on Western Rivers, please consult the latest USCG Light List for your area. These volumes are available online at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov

VHF Marine Radio channels for use on the waterways: Distress Call Procedures Channel 6 – Inter-ship safety communications. Channel 9 – Communications between boats and • Make sure radio is on. ship-to-coast. • Select Channel 16. Channel 13 – Navigation purposes at bridges, locks, and • Press/Hold the transmit button. harbors. • Clearly say: “MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY.” EMERGENCY INFORMATION Channel 16 – Emergency, distress and safety calls to • Also give: Vessel Name and/or Description; Coast Guard and others, and to initiate calls to other Position and/or Location; Nature of vessels. Contact the other vessel, agree to another channel, and then switch. Emergency; Number of People on Board. Channel 22A – Calls between the Coast Guard and the public. Severe weather • Release transmit button. warnings, hazards to navigation and safety warnings are broadcast here. • Wait for 10 seconds — If no response Channels 68, 69, 71, 72 and 78A – Recreational boat channels. Repeat MAYDAY call. Getting and Giving Help — Signal other boaters using visual distress signals (flares, HAVE ALL PERSONS PUT ON LIFE JACKETS! orange flag, lights, arm signals); whistles; horns; and on your VHF radio. You are required by law to help boaters in trouble. Respond to distress signals, but do not endanger yourself.

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